Category Archives: Free Resources

May 27 2013

VMware vSphere Essentials


Gain a basic understanding of some of the concerns or planning points to consider when you get ready to deploy vSphere in your organization.

This is a glimpse into some of the essential things to consider for implementing vSphere. This will focus on some of the basics that vSphere administrators run into when installing the latest features and not realizing they still have some older versions implemented.
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  • Advantages to Implementing Virtual Machines
  • Hypervisor
  • Hosted Solution
  • What Is a Virtual Machine?
  • Some Files that Make up a Virtual Machine
  • Virtual Hardware
  • ESXi 5
  • VMware Workstation and Fusion Product Lines
  • Windows and Appliance Versions of vCenter
  • vSphere Client
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May 23 2013

Application Security in the Cloud


Whether critical applications are deployed in the public cloud, in the data center, or in both, organizations need a strategic point of control for application security.
Application threats are constantly evolving. Anyone could be a target, and perpetrators are extremely skilled, organized, and well-funded. Culprits are often trained than the IT staff deployed to thwart the attacks, which are creative, elaborate, targeted, and aggressive.

Application Security in the Cloud

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Customer data, state secrets, intellectual property, SSL certificates, and other proprietary, highly sensitive information are the top targets. The infrastructure needs a layered barrier that protects against attacks, and users need protection against potential infection from the application, if it were to be compromised.

F5 BIG-IP ASM v11 is the most comprehensive WAF on the market. BIG-IP ASM VE is cloud-ready, offering flexible deployment and cloud security for virtualized applications including the ability to sync policies

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May 13 2013

Free Download – Securing the Cloud – F5 Solutions


Performance, scalability, and shared resources were the primary focus of initial cloud offerings. Cloud computing has matured and established itself as yet another option for IT including sensitive data is making its way to the cloud.

Organizations are beginning to realize that the cloud does not lend itself to static security controls. In the cloud, security solutions must have the capability to interpret its context, intercept all data traffic, and then make appropriate decisions about that traffic. The cloud requires the ability to apply policies and tools that can control access to, and migrate with, the applications and data as they move from traditional data center to cloud—and as they travel to other models in the cloud.

Securing the Cloud

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Cloud computing promises self-serve deployment, lower TCO, faster time to market, scalable, on-demand resources; flexible; and a multitude of service options that can host your entire infrastructure. No matter if it is a public, private, or hybrid cloud, F5 solutions can help make your cloud infrastructure or deployment more secure, reliable, and resilient. Securing the cloud with F5 includes a set of flexible, unified solutions—each with its own expertise to address your specific cloud application delivery needs.

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